white cockatoo

English

Noun

white cockatoo (plural white cockatoos)

1. Any of various cockatoos having predominantly white plumage: [from 18th c.]
   1. Cacatua alba, of Indonesia
   2. The sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia.
      • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 92:

        Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.

Translations

Cacatua alba

• Dutch: witte kaketoe (nl) m
• Finnish: valkokakadu (fi)

Cacatua galerita — see sulphur-crested cockatoo